hyperlit: (i am going into battle and i want)
ᴅʀɪғᴛᴇʀ ([personal profile] hyperlit) wrote in [community profile] lifeaftr 2017-10-19 01:05 am (UTC)

[The culture of a nomadic, homeless, wandering people with an unspoken code - a code that, even then, did not fully protect them from the disgust of peers who did not take kindly to the tint of their skin and the darkness of their gaze. Isolation even in the broader circle of an inherently isolated people is a difficult thing to achieve, and achieve it they did.]

[The child's preconceptions are based off descriptors so vague that perhaps he cannot help but draw the most pleasant possible conclusions. Either way, it would be a cruelty to shatter those worldviews. And so they say nothing to the contrary.]

[They know, now, the meaning of "human." Recognize it as a label to be applied to a great deal of the people here.]


great many humans here

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